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AMARYLLIS laticoma. 
Prince Leopold's Amaryllis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4A, 
Nat. ord. Narcissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IT, Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. 
Div. VI. Corolle hexapetalo-partite, subrotate. Folia bifaria. Nobis in 
Journ. arts and scien. 2. 362. 
A. laticoma, foliis lineari-loratis, scapo plano scabro, pedunculis strictis ro- 
bustis triquetris hispidis divaricatis duplo longioribus flore. 
= Bulbus ovato-oblongus, magnitudine ovi anatini v. circiter, tegminibus 
Jibroso-membranaceis multiplicibus fuscescentibus. Folia bifaria, recumben- 
tia, subsena, lorata, lenta, longiora scapo latitudine 3 uncie v. circiteér mar- 
gine alterné sinistrorsum et deatrorsum subfalcatim flexa, obtusa, utrinque 
lucida. Scapus viridissimus, complanatus, subQuncialis latitudine subse- 
muncialt v. magis, tuberculato-scaber, erectus. Umbella multi- (17)-flora, 
ordine triplo alterna, remota, divaricata, hemispherica, ramentis bracte- 
| aceis: spatha bivalvis, sphacelata, subrosea, ter brevior pedunculis, valvis lan- 
| ceolatis refractis: pedune. stricti, robustissimi, triquetri, pube brevi glan- 
| dulosa hispida cinerascentes, 4-unciales. Cor. nutans, roseo-alba, inodora, 
| sexpartita, irregularis, turbinato-rotata; laciniis omnibus collaterali-ascen- 
| dentibus v. nunc und remota genitalibus subtensd, subequalibus angustias 
| ligulatis albis cum lined rosea medio-longitudinali, inferné versits convoluto- 
unguiculatis, conniventibus, brevissime connexis, superne recurvis, non un- 
dulatis, 2 lineas latis v. circitér, acutis, Stam. declinato-assurgentia, co- 
rolle equalia, alterné. longiora, 3 precociora: fil. rosea fundo brevissime 
tubuloso corolle adnata: anth. oblonge, vibratiles, .atropurpuree, polline 
ochroleuco. Germ. oblato-rotundum, rubido-virescens, subtrilobum; loculi 
pleni, biseriato-subpentaspermi, ovula globosa; stylus albus, stamina subex- 
superans: stig. patens, pruinosum, 3-fidum lobulis rotundatis. 
An unrecorded and singular species, by which the trans- 
ition from Amarytuis to Brunsviaia is rendered still nar- 
rower than by Amaryuus flexuosa of the 172d article of this 
publication, which we once deemed the probable connecting 
link of the two genera at one point. Laticoma has the fructifi- 
cation of Amaryuuis and the herb of Brunsvieta. The rough 
flat stem and proportionately massive three-cornered pe- 
duncles are anomalies in the genus. The leaves are not blis- 
tered nor the segments of the corolla undulate as in flexuosa. 
The bulb came from the Cape of Good Hope, and 
flowered, most probably for the first time in Europe, in the 
collection of H. R. H. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, at 
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